Fugitive ferret returned

1:42 AM,
Feb. 21, 2014

The ferret that was caught by city workers on Third Street in Port Clinton on Thursday, Feb 20, 2014.

Written by

Catharine Hadley
Staff writer

Port Clinton Service Department Manager Eric Petersen and the city employees help the residents in several different ways - plowing roadways, fixing water and sewer lines, mowing grass.

On Thursday, Petersen rescued a resident's runaway ferret. The pet has since been returned to its owner.

"I was driving down the 500 block of West Third," Petersen said. He had another employee with him, and they spotted the ferret. "I thought it was a squirrel at first, and the guy that was riding with me said, 'Pull up a little bit.'" ...